Verb
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en-verb)
(label) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
* 1611 , (w) 1:9:
- And Godthe dry land appear .
* {{quote-magazine|year=2012|month=March-April
|author=(
Jeremy Bernstein)|volume=100|issue=2|page=146|magazine=(
American Scientist)
|title=
A Palette of Particles
|passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just
appeared . Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.}}
(label) To come before the public.
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* {{quote-book|year=1905|author=
|title=
|chapter=2
citation
|passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes,
appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
(label) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
* 1611 , 5:10:
- We must all appear before the judgment seat.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):
- One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .
(label) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
* 1611 , 3:2:
- It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
* (rfdate) (John Milton):
- Of their vain contest appeared no end.
* {{quote-book|year=1963|author=(Margery Allingham)|title=(The China Governess)
|chapter=18
citation
|passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of
appearing in the newspapers?}}
* {{quote-magazine|year=2013|month=July-August|magazine=(American Scientist)
|author=
Philip J. Bushnell
|title=
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance
|passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects
appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene,
To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
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* 1611 , (w) 6:16:
- They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
* {{quote-book|year=1963|author=(Margery Allingham)|title=(The China Governess)
|chapter=5
citation
|passage=Mr. Campion
appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
